Indian filmmaker Kiran Rao’s sophomore effort, “Laapataa Ladies” (“Lost Ladies”), bows as a Centrepiece selection at the Toronto International Film Festival. Set in 20…
Set in 2001 in rural India, the film follows two young brides wearing identical crimson veils who get swapped during a train ride to their husbands’ villages after their weddings. It is based on “Two Brides” by Biplab Goswami, one of the winning scripts at the Cinestaan India’s Storytellers Contest, where Bollywood superstar, one of the producers of “Lost Ladies,” was on the jury. The script was subsequently worked on by Sneha Desai and Divyanidhi Sharma, keeping Goswami’s vision intact.
While the tone of the film is light-hearted, the issues tackled are deadly serious. “We have, obviously, violence against women and quite horrible things that happen to women in India and the story could have gone in any direction, really. The idea was to allow that space for women to hope, for women to reach optimistically for something. And to do it without violence,” Rao says.
“The idea of keeping it light, of trying very hard not to villainize anyone, but expose things for the way they are. I find much of society, not just Indian society, quite like living satire in so many ways. Then you don’t really need to do very much other than show it for what it is, and keep it in that tone, in some way hopeful and optimistic in what otherwise can be quite despairing times, was very much the goal,” Rao says.
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